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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the
 Ada Programming Language
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:10:32 +0100
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<jsquirek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 10:42:12 AM UTC-4, Justin Sq wrote:

>> On the otherhand Ada.Directories and Ada.Text_IO are woefully outdated.
>> For example, if you have a computer and you speak a language like
>> Japanese, French, German, Spanish, etc. think of how frustrating it is
>> when you simply can't open a file with anything other than ASCII in the
>> path. A program that deals with relative directories might work fine in
>> one directory but get moved and suddenly fail hopelessly. Poor end-user :(
> 
> My mistake String supports more than just ASCII (Duh), but Asian and
> other esoteric languages obvious not.
> 

Unicode would solve this. Ah 21st century technology! 😋